CROSSWORD CLUES "A"
Sorcerer's helper (10)
An apprentice
This cracked while tolling the 1835 death of Chief Justice John Marshall
the Liberty Bell
Often, a grain of sand is all it takes to irritate an oyster into producing this gem
A pearl
This prayer to the mother of Jesus was popular for devotions by the 11th century
the "Hail Mary"
She bore John Adams 3 sons & 2 daughters
Abigail Adams
Occasion for practical jokes (5,5,3)
April Fool's Day
The 1st justice with a U.S. law degree was Benjamin Curtis, who earned it from this Mass. university in 1832
Harvard
A small one of these ancient devices with trickling sand is sometimes used as an egg timer
An hourglass
The popularity of the florin coin helped make this city of its origin a banking center
Florence
Though he became "The Wizard of Menlo Park", New Jersey, he was born in Milan, Ohio in 1847
French adios (5)
Adieu
In 1945 Justice Robert H. Jackson went on leave to prosecute war criminals in this city
Nuremberg
These fruits, popular at Thanksgiving, are grown in sand-covered bogs in the northeastern U.S.
Cranberries
This duchy's name goes back to Lucilinburhuc, a castle built around 963
Luxembourg
Bishara is the middle name of this convicted assassin of Robert F. Kennedy
Sirhan Sirhan
For bidding place (7)
An Auction
In Ex Parte Milligan, a case that grew out of this war, the Court limited the application of martial law
The Civil War
Over 1500 feet high, the world's highest sand dunes are in Algeria in this desert
The Sahara Desert
Until the 12th C. most European books were hand-produced on parchment by men living in these places
monasteries
Prior to befriending the Pilgrims, this Pawtuxet Indian had been sold into slavery in Spain
Squanto
Anne Tyler's tourist (10)
Accidental
John Paul Stevens, who replaced William O. Douglas, was this president's only appointee
Gerald Ford
The chief constituents of sand are usually feldspar & this form of silica
Quartz
In England this word referred to a law requiring people to cover their fires at an evening bell
Curfew
He's the only U.N. Secretary-General to win a Nobel Peace Prize, posthumously in 1961
Dag Hammarskjöld